Duncan posted on Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:25:14 +0000 as excerpted: > FWIW just did a speed test at the hotel's complimentary wifi level, > which is what I'm using. 1.3 Mbps down, 1.0 Mbps up. I'm streaming > youtube ATM, just fine @ 360p, eyeballing it at ~500-600 kbps average. > Upping to 480p triggers buffering, so obviously won't be doing much > 1080p the next 2-3 months, but 360p's not too bad @ the complimentary > level, I suppose.
FWIW, I've been streaming nearly constantly for near 24 hours now, and as long as I keep it to 360p and thus under 1 Mbps average, it's surprisingly stable. The hotel has multiple access points, apparently enough that wifi bandwidth isn't seriously contested, and that 1 Mbit average (allowing 1.3 Mbit for short bursts) level would appear to be a deliberate per-user cap. Rather better than I had feared and definitely survivable. =:^) Tho of course at least 720p streaming, which would extrapolate to 5Mbps, would be nice... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
